Creating Excellent Pastures From the Soil Up
I think we all have our vision of what makes an excellent pasture. We see a thick stand where nearly all the ground is covered by...
Here's What Reducing Pasture Recovery Periods Can Cost You
We all know that giving our pastures enough time to recover before grazing them again is critical to our success. But what may be news is...
How to Manage for Drought with Grazing
Foothills Forage Member Doug Wray talks about he manages and prepares his pastures for drought and dry spells.
5 Tips to Develop a Grazing System in Sync with Nature
Much has been said and written about ranch sustainability. When you boil it down, however, it’s largely a matter of working with nature....
Green Grass & Newborn Calves a Perfect Match
Assisting a cow with her calf is much nicer when the weather is pleasant — and matching calving season with the onset of green grass...
Making Sense of Many Systems of Rotational Grazing
Making Sense of the Many Systems of Rotational Grazing Five minutes exploring the grazing literature is enough to be horribly confused...
Reproduction & Grazing Were Designed for Each Other
For optimum energy utilization, the cows' reproductive cycle should coincide with the grass production cycle A study from the United...
Is It Residual or Is It Residue?
A lot of people in grazing circles seem to use these terms interchangeably, but in grazing science they mean two very different things....
Oregon Rancher Teaches Cows to Eat Sagebrush
Two weeks ago, Beth wrote about results of studies done by her colleagues at Utah State University on using cattle to graze sagebrush to...
Profit Per Cow or Per Acre?
Photo Credit: Lee Gunderson If we focus on profit per acre, there will be a tendency to seek the right-sized cow for our environment and...
Understanding the Intensive in Intensive Grazing
Management-intensive grazing and other intensive grazing systems have been promoted for quite a few years but what does the word...
